Talking about things that interest me, and hopefully interest you too.

Talking about things that interest me, and hopefully interest you too.

Yearly Archives: 2017

H5P is a really cool HTML 5 content creation platform that allows some really complex things to be done really easily. This is just an experiment with its Twitter feed content type, which took <10 seconds to do. You can learn more about H5P in this video.

I love GNU/Linux. I have used GNU/Linux since 1999 and exclusively since 2001. I have used Ubuntu since the first version, and I depend on GNU/Linux for everything I do on a computer, whether work or play. Importantly, I use it for 100% of the work I do, and 100% of […]

This morning I was playing around in DarkTable, improving my skills at using its awesome capability. I used a photo of a Half-collared Kingfisher that was in deep shadow, and accidentally shot at ISO6400 because I had forgotten to change my settings from when i was taking eagles in flight in […]

Arthur C. Clarke wrote “How inappropriate to call this planet ‘Earth’ when it is quite clearly ‘Ocean’.” I have been lucky that during my days as a marine biologist I got to travel around and explore this planet called Ocean, and even find and describe some new species from our […]

South Africa is slowly starting to emerge from under a purulent pile of corruption. Corrupt practices go way back into the Apartheid era, and certainly corruption associated with the current political system was well established in the Mbeki. But it escalated under Jacob Zuma’s “leadership” to the point where one […]

The South Africa of today is not the South Africa the liberation struggle founders envisaged. It is not even the South Africa envisaged by ANC slogans, such as “a better life for all“. At a political level, South Africa is a divided country, lacking in vision and lacking in leadership, […]

I saw this on Ulric van Vuuren’s Instagram when he followed me on Twitter: One human race. One love. One with nature. So I made an adaptation of it, that gets to the heart of secular humanism or what ever you want to call someone who thinks belief that n(gods) > 0 […]

In my last blog post, I talked about some of the characteristics of a university designed for the 21st Century. In this one, I focus on what a university should be like in his post-scarcity age that we are in now. Universities evolved during the industrial age, and many of […]

A few years ago (maybe 10 years), many of us in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) movement criticised the South African Government for the way in which it was going about its Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) initiative. Firstly, it looked as though it was flouting its own FOSS […]

When I made my posting about an innovation economy for South Africa, point 8 that I made was to create at least two innovation universities in major urban areas or at worst, on their periphery. One might wonder why I would propose creating two new institutions, focusing on innovation. Why […]

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